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User Guide
Reminder: The Tableau Data Extract plugin will only run in a Windows environment at this time.
The Tableau Data Extract plugin allows Pentaho to write directly to a Tableau Data Extract (.tde) file.
To use a TDE file in Tableau Desktop follow the instructions at http://onlinehelp.tableausoftware.com/v8.0/pro/online/en-us/examples_extract.html.
To publish a TDE file to Tableau Server using Tableau Desktop follow the instructions at http://onlinehelp.tableausoftware.com/v8.1/pro/online/en-us/extracting_push.html
To publish a TDE file to Tableau Server using the command line utility follow the instructions at http://onlinehelp.tableausoftware.com/v8.1/pro/online/en-us/extracting_TDE.html
The Extract tab is where you define basic properties about the extract being created, such as:
- Extract Name - The file path and file name of the extract. A .tde will automatically be appended to the file name at run time.
- Append - If the file already exists should the step append to the file or overwrite the file.
- Create Parent folder - When this option is specified it will create the parent folder if it does not exist.
- Include stepnr in filename? - If you run the step in multiple copies (Launching several copies of a step), the copy number is included in the filename, before the extension. (_0).
- Include partition nr in filename? - Includes the data partition number in the filename.
- Include date in filename - Includes the system date in the filename. (_20041231).
- Include time in filename - Includes the system time in the filename. (_235959).
- Specify Date time format - When this option is checked you can specify the format of the date to be included in the filename.
- Date time format - The date format to use when including the date in the filename.
The Fields Tab is where you specify the fields that should be included in the TDE file.
- Name - The name of the field on the input stream.
- Rename to - If the field in the TDE file should be named something different than the field name on the stream, specify the new name here.
- Tableau type - A Tableau specific data type.
- Get Fields - Gets all of the fields on the stream and assigns default Tableau Types.
- Boolean - True/False
- Character String - A string of ASCII characters
- Date - Just the date part of a date.
- DateTime - The full date including the timestamp.
- Double - A number.
- Duration - The length of time in milliseconds of an event.
- Integer - An integer.
- Unicode String - A string containing Unicode characters.